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Own‐other differences in the realism of some metacognitive judgments
Author(s) -
JOHANSSON MARCUS,
ALLWOOD CARL MARTIN
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2007.00565.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , metacognition , context (archaeology) , cognitive psychology , realism , cognition , epistemology , biology , paleontology , philosophy , neuroscience
The present study investigated differences in judgments of one's own and others’ knowledge (the own‐other difference). Consistent with the below‐average effect (e.g., Kruger, 1999), our main results showed that the participants gave lower knowledge ratings of their own extent of knowledge than of another person's extent of knowledge (Experiment 1). Furthermore, lower and more realistic judgments were found when the participants judged their own as compared with when judging another person's overall accuracy (frequency judgments) of answering knowledge questions correctly (Experiment 1 and 2). On the basis of these results it is argued that judgmental anchoring may be important also in the context of indirect comparisons, and that previous conclusions of cross‐cultural psychology regarding the above‐average effect may be oversimplified.